Gorgeous afternoon so went for a walk down Taggs Island with Mrs D.
Not much about - although tideline corpses included 2 Gannets and five Guillemots, all long past their sell by date.
5 Stonechats, 2 Song Thrushes, one groups of 17 tired Meadow Pipits on the sand, with smaller pipit parties here and there, and a few Skylarks, but it was way too pleasant to be splashing about looking for Jack Snipe - their time will come...
Small gull roost bathing on the channel as it reaches the beach by the "new" boardwalk.
Insect wise, I had three Migrant Hawkers, a few Common Darters, 2 Red Admirals, and this little critter....
I'm no good with ladybirds, but I wonder, is it a Harlequin?
Perhaps if Mike Bird (or any other ladybirdheads) is reading he can help me out....
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
- Post to:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
Nowpublic
Reddit
« Previous | Home | Next »
mike bird wrote...
hi john,the ladybird looks like a 11 spotted.the only bit thats confusing is the pronotum (the bit behind the head).this part can vary in marking quite a bit.the only other ladybird like this is the adonis but the spots did,nt lookright to me. mike.
Posted by: mike bird | October 5, 2007 7:03 PM